How can we make sure that our technology has a positive impact?

Question from the Internet:

“How can we address concerns about the environmental impact of AI technology?”

AI is a tool. It is a tool in the hands of human beings. What effect and impact AI has on others and the natural environment depends on the intentions, goals, and aspirations of human beings.

Our problem is not with the technology we use; our problem is with our own intentions, goals, and aspirations.

By default, each and every human being cares only about oneself; all our calculations, decisions, and actions are 100% self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic. We openly and actively seek to survive and succeed at the expense of others and nature.

This is why human history is a helplessly recurring chain of vicious cycles, and this is why our current generation is stumbling from crisis to crisis while nearing a seemingly inevitable self-destruction.

So we do not need to worry about the effects and impact of the technology we use. We need to learn and practice how to change and further develop ourselves until we can use everything we have only for positive, constructive, and mutually beneficial goals and purposes with totally selfless and altruistic intentions and aspirations.